PainAdelaide 2013 – Design the logo!

Adelaide is a Festival City – the Adelaide Festival of Arts and the Fringe Festival, though February & March, are internationally renowned as among the world’s best; WOMADelaide – the World of Music, Arts & Dance – attracts 85,000 people in four days; the Comeout Festival is Australia’s premier festival of contemporary art, performance and creativity for kids; the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Guitar Festival and Film Festival are also world famous.

Well, keeping with this theme, we are setting out to find a spot for a mini Pain festival. Starting next year, we are putting on PainAdelaide. PainAdelaide reflects a new venture between Adelaide’s three universities – Flinders, Adelaide and UniSA, each of whom have world class pain researchers doing Very Important Projects – the clinical community and the public. Our objective is to facilitate research, optimise conversation between the scientists, clinicians and community, and to synergise out attempts to make real progress towards better outcomes for people in pain. PainAdelaide 2013 is our chance to really kick off this progress.

Our ‘Festival’ starts with the second Ride for Pain, on April 7th, (here’s what we did for the first Ride for Pain) followed by an evening aimed at the general public, where Prof Paul Rolan and Prof Lorimer Moseley will tackle a prickly issue to be confirmed. On April 8th we will have the inaugural PainAdelaide symposium. We have collected a stellar line up (see announcement at right) and we want to fill the place. It will be so well priced you will jump for joy and you get a discount if you do the Ride and the Symposium.

We need a logo! So, if you think you have got a great way to capture these themes, have a go and email them to <info@bodyinmind.org>. We need to have the words Pain Adelaide in it. You have a week! The winner will get a prize – $250 for the winner and $100 for the runner up.

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Hi Soula, I’m afraid it is a strict deadline (although I’m sure if we receive something over the weekend before Monday it will be OK). UniSA need time to incorporate the logo into their marketing which is about to kick off.

Do you have back pain? We need you!

We are looking for people who have back pain that has persisted for more than 3 months.
Our study in Adelaide is investigating the relationship between chronic back pain and poor sleep, and the contributions of general mood and beliefs about pain.

We are asking that you complete a questionnaire about your general health, pain and sleep characteristics. You will also be asked to wear a wristwatch type device that records your activity levels for one week while also maintaining a pain and sleep diary. If you choose to participate, you will be given a report on your sleep quality. This research has been approved by the UniSA Ethics Committee Ref. 0000033839 “Chronic Back Pain and Sleep study”.

If you are interested, please contact Danny on 8302 1432 or email danny.camfferman@unisa.edu.au.

Please take our survey

The Body in Mind Research Group at the University of South Australia invites you to be part of an investigation on hand postures and pain.

We are interested in the things that affect how we experience pain. A better understanding of this will help us to make sense of acute and chronic pain.

If you are 18 years or older and have hand pain, hand arthritis or you are pain free we invite you to participate in our short survey here.

Participants needed – Adelaide

Do you live in Adelaide? Are you female between 25 and 70 and have good hearing? Do you have fibromyalgia or would you like to help someone who has by being a participant in a very interesting and painless study we are conducting at the University of South Australia.

The study examines sensory processing in people with fibromyalgia and those without by recording your eye blink responses to some sounds. You also need to complete several questionnaires that ask about your health and well-being so we need up to 2 hours of your time.

Compensation of $20 per hour up to a maximum of 2 hours is offered. If you are interested, please contact Carolyn.berryman@unisa.edu.au.

Healthy volunteers needed

We are investigating the effects of a (non-painful) tendon vibration illusion in the way you feel your body. This will involve 1 session lasting approximately 1.5 hours and you will be reimbursed $20 for your time.

If you live in Adelaide and are healthy and are right handed with no pain in your hands and arms please contact: Valeria Bellan or
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All blog posts should be attributed to their author, not to BodyInMind. That is, BodyInMind wants authors to say what they really think, not what they think BodyInMind thinks they should think. Think about that!

We aim to facilitate and disseminate good clinical science research. We love comments that engage with the research and are constructive and respectful. No self-promotion of your particular therapy please (these comments get filed in the recycling bin).
We do not prescribe treatments.